Kickended by Silvio Lorusso is online database artwork archiving the Kickstarted campaigns that got not even a single penny. This competitive aesthetics of failure has been able to attract the attention of major national newspapers (from the British “The Guardian” to the Italian “Corriere della Sera”).

Graphic Constellations: Visual Poetry and the Properties of Space, it’s an exhibition celebrating the 50th anniversary of the First International Exhibition of Concrete, Kinetic and Phonic Poetry held in Cambridge in late 1964. Curated by Bronac Ferran and Will Hill at the Ruskin Gallery in Cambridge, UK (Image: ‘Poemkon=D=4=Open=Apollinaire’).

The Pirate Bay computers and servers have been seized by Swedish Police on a data center in Nacka (Greater Stockholm). It’s offline since December 9. http://torrentfreak.com/swedish-police-raid-the-pirate-bay-site-offline-141209/

“Art Post-Internet” was an exhibition curated by Karen Archey and Robin Peckham for the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing in spring 2014. This is the specially designed pdf catalogue whose with the front page is created each time with the IP and quite approximated location of the user. It includes tentatively definition of “post-internet” by Cory Arcangel, Simon Denny, and Bunny Rogers, art critics Ben Davis and Paddy Johnson, academics Mark Tribe and Esther Choi, and museum professionals Christiane Paul, Raffael Dörig, Jamillah James, Ben Vickers, Omar Kholeif and Gene McHugh.

Matt Brailsford used a modified old tape player as interface to this Raspberry Pi + Spotify Media Server, so listener can use the player (and the cassettes) as physical interface to the different playlists.

O.S.T. & Transforma – Synken

dvd – Shitkatapult
Sidereal spaces, trembling emissions, crooked views of natural spaces and industrial places, strange beings and a human figure, halfway through the monk and the shaman. Actually electronic sounds, made out of extremely dilated drones, machinic frequencies and noise roughness, fruit of ChrisDouglas’ (aka O.S.T.) manipulative practices, (he’s also known as Dalglish, Rook Valard and Rook Vallade). This is a weird and ambitious project built by Berlin-based Transforma video collective, that combines visual cuts, borrowing them from vjing techniques with an uncommon narrative vocation. The work is developed focusing on an errant aesthetic that draws closer to the spectacular outcomes of the most deviated theater experiments. A mystery trip, steeped in organic and synthetic matter (or as the post-avant garde theatre would have said: ‘natural’ and ‘artificial’), with sudden scale and attention shifts, and made out of performative skills in putting on sets and stages. So there’s a moulding process summing design, cinema, photography, music and performing art skills in synchronized actions with an actual common digital forms base. To better understand this process it’s worth to check the dvd extra, especially ‘Making Of Synken’ and ‘Symul’.